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Subject: How would you have defended Reach? (Good Thread!)
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Posted by: I Em I Raptor
Primary Resources:
1 UNSC Destroyer
-UNSC Iroquois
3 UNSC Frigates
-UNSC Savannah
-UNSC Grafton
-UNSC Saratoga
2 UNSC Prowlers
1 UNSC Heavy Frigate
1 UNSC Halcyon-class Cruiser
-UNSC Pillar of Autumn
A Platoon of SPARTAN-IIs

SPARTAN-III Teams:
Echo
Beta Red
Gauntlet
Noble

385,421,100 Available Military manpower.
3 Refit and Repair Stations
Anchor 9

Base Story, you are and Admiral, and these are the asset you command at first , not, in the story, you can say reinforcements arrived or you can capture and enemy vessel ect.


My Battle plan from an earlier post:

I would have used SPARTAN Teams Noble, Gauntlet, Echo, and Beta Red, plus that Platoon of SPARTAN IIs to de-shield the Spires, and have the Frigates Grafton and Saratoga to fire a few salvos of Archer Missile Pods at them to disable them.

At this point, Covenant Supercarrier - Long Night of Solace, wouild have been detected, I would have Grafton & Saratoga retreat and send out Pelicans and Falcons to pick our troops up.

By then, the Long Night of Solace would have pulled back into geo-synchrinous orbit over Reach, and was comprimised. Once the troops were back on the Frigates, I would send the Grafton up to help with Operation - UPPERCUT, and the Frigate Saratoga to reinforce the besieged ONI: Sword Base. Once at Anchor 9, I would have the Grafton use its 50mm PDFs to help the Sabre Teams mop up the Covenant Recon flights. Then, I would proceed with the operation. When at the Ardent Prayer, the Covenant Corvette, I would have the Savannah and Grafton use their 50mm PDF to knock out the Plasma Torpedo launchers on the Corvette, and Have the Platoon of SPARTAN IIs and aPlatoon of UNSC Army soldiers, to help the taking of the Cpmmunication Room, Hanger Bay, and Bridge. If the slipspace bomb were to fail, I would leave 3 Army Soldiers behind, and evac the SPARTAN IIs along with the remaining soldiers. I would call the Frigate Savannah and Grafton back to Anchor 9, refit-and-repair, and send them down to Reach to reinforce the troops fighting in New Alexandria, they would deploy Noble, and Echo to clear Traxus Tower and assist in the evacuation there, and bring the missile defense system back online at the plaza area to assist in Civilian evacs. Beta-Red and Gauntlet would eliminate the Jammers in New Alexandira while the UNSC Saratoga arrive over the city, the Now 3 Ship Strike Force made up of the Saratoga, Grafton, and Savannah, would eliminate the 3 Corvettes over the city using MACs and continue assitstance in the Evactuation of civilians from Newe Alexandria.

I would then use any remaining free orbital support to aid in the destruction of the 2 CCS Class Battlecruisers that would later arrive.

Finnaly, I would dispatch the Grafton and Savannah to assist in the Battle over Reach, and would send the UNSC Saratoga to recieve the Package, and deliver it to the Pillar of Autumn, I would put SPARTAN Teams Noble, Gauntlet, Echo, Beta-Red and the Platoon of SPARTAN IIs on the Pillar of Autumn and cover it while it flees Reach.

Feel free to point out flaws in my battleplan.




Update* NOVA Bomb now in invintory, only available late in the battle.



You would fire on your own planet from space? It seems like that'd be a last resort. If I saw my own race firing on its own planet my moral would be shot.

  • 12.09.2010 3:32 PM PDT


Posted by: carby21
With an army of super carriers led by the UNSC Trafalgar.


Probably this.

  • 12.09.2010 3:36 PM PDT


Posted by: Stealth Fox74
now wouldnt this idea b awesome for halo wars 2??? new rts stragety combat!!! anyways, sounds like a good plan cept the spaceships seem a bit invincible


That sounds cool. I hope that they integrate space combat if the do make a Halo Wars 2.

  • 12.09.2010 5:41 PM PDT


Posted by: I Em I Raptor


Finnaly, I would dispatch the Grafton and Savannah to assist in the Battle over Reach, and would send the UNSC Saratoga to recieve the Package, and deliver it to the Pillar of Autumn, I would put SPARTAN Teams Noble, Gauntlet, Echo, Beta-Red and the Platoon of SPARTAN IIs on the Pillar of Autumn and cover it while it flees Reach.



Only problem with that is that noble 6 was specifically chosen by cortana to deliver her to the Pillar of Autumn other then that it sounds solid.

  • 12.09.2010 6:01 PM PDT

The trick to life is...

1)Make Halsey realise that Reach is actual a planet sized battle-station.

2)Proceed to -blam!- over covenant - laughing manically and saying take that you alien b4stards!!!

3)Then go to covenant space and wipe out every last one, no one would be spared. Nothing at all. Oh im sorry you don't like genocide? You shouldn't have started it then!

4)Golden Age for humanity

5)Become emperor of mankind

6)???

7)Profit!

  • 12.09.2010 7:31 PM PDT
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

I'm liking these " Deceive and NOVA Tactic"

Fooling the Fleet of Particular Justice, and planting a NOVA Bomb to disband or destroy the Fleet, thus killing the Arbiter, that might be bad, considering future events aren't set in stone.

Get the Epsilon Eridani DEF. Fleet to jump to Installation 01, overload Halos power core/center with a few Shivas, of course after stealing the Index, mop up the 13 ships the Covenant brought to Alpha Halo, return to Earth, build more ships, using saved data and resources possibly from Reach (Ship Technicians; Engineers) and Hold out at Earth. Set up Nuclear mine fields, Nukes aren't expensive people, its 2552.

Once again, use a Shiva to destroy Delta Halo, after stealing the Index (Im a thief, lol) And use Forrunner information to locate and destroy all other Halo Installations, the Flood will never be realeased, The Covenant will lose a cause to fight the War, break into a Civil War, destroy itself, all while I send a UNSC Prowler, to, I dont know...sneek a few Shiva Class Nuclear weapons into High Charities core, killing the Covenant leadership that is trying so desperatly to reunite its government, the Elites will win a war of attrition against the Brutes, and will have no choice to side with the Humans, who have retained, rebuilt, and refined their Fleets and Miliatry.

Hot Damn I should be a General!

  • 12.09.2010 7:42 PM PDT

1. Send troops to defend specific places and or escape routes.
2. Evac civilians by sending them to hidden transport sites. That would better increase the chance of them not getting shot down before they even leave orbit.
3. Send troops to defend any remaining cities. If a city is lost, I would shell it with MAC rounds and finish it of with a nuke (the city would be destroyed anyway, so might as well take out the large majority of Covenant within it).
4. In short, I would have evaced at the earliest moment we knew we will definetly lose. Slowly withdrawing troops instead of sending them to their deaths. Using my remaining ships, I would gather up my forces, and in #5...
5. SHELL AND NUKE EM' SOME MORE!!! Atleast with whatever I've got left.

  • 12.09.2010 8:31 PM PDT

What a waste....

Sawyer, I think it wouldn't have mattered if we lost. I would've evac'd EVERYONE the second the Covies showed up at the relay station.

  • 12.09.2010 9:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Nocbl2
Sawyer, I think it wouldn't have mattered if we lost. I would've evac'd EVERYONE the second the Covies showed up at the relay station.


Good point.

  • 12.10.2010 6:36 AM PDT

What a waste....


Posted by: major nolan
ONCE THE BIG ASS COVENANT FLEET ARRIVES PICK UP ASMANY CIVI'S AS POSSIBLE GET AS MUCH OFF THE PLANET AS POSSIBLE GO TO EARTH. PLANT NOVA BOMB ON A STATION AS WE LEAVE . WHEN ALOT OF COVE SHIPS ARE NEAR BTFO OF THEM. :)
No caps.

  • 12.10.2010 7:20 AM PDT

Dark Neptune, a young amateur astronomer whose gaming life is no different from other teenagers of his age, though he controls it more strictly then others.

Get all ships to evac the Spartans and then initate Cole Protocol, and when done, head back to Earth if covies don't follow.

And then, make a -blam! -blam! -blamED! last stand on Earth.

  • 12.10.2010 7:22 AM PDT
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.


Posted by: Dark Neptune
Get all ships to evac the Spartans and then initate Cole Protocol, and when done, head back to Earth if covies don't follow.

And then, make a -blam! -blam! -blamED! last stand on Earth.


Ohh-Ahh!

  • 12.10.2010 9:41 AM PDT

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